Oluatoyin Alleyne

One only has to listen to the jazzy performances of “Bounce It” or “Let’s Speak Latin” or the Beyonce hit “If I Were A Boy” by Derry Etkins’ students in the St George’s Muzik Lab to know that he is passionate both about music and about teaching it.

For five months she watched a woman being verbally and physically abused by her partner at a mining camp and one day she could take it no more.

AH&L Kissoon is one of the oldest furniture businesses in Guyana and while today it is much smaller than it was in its heyday it is still one of those most trusted by customers.

This is the seventh in our series on new parliamentarians The scrutiny of government contracts awarded to Region One will be high on the agenda of A Partnership of National Unity (APNU), new parliamentarian Richard Allen said, because for too long contractors have been allowed to get away with shoddy work.

President Donald Ramotar, in his inaugural speech to the 10th Parliament, yesterday said that his administration is willing to “exercise patience, forbearance, and reasonableness in the interest of all of our people” but warned it would not be held ransom to “intractable postures”.

Valerie Garrido-Lowe may be a new face in the National Assembly but she is certainly not new to the world of politics, and her experience in the last few months has only served to strengthen her resolve to fight for equal rights and justice for the down trodden, she says.

Astute management under difficult conditions, as well as projecting where the company should be going have kept Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL) in the competitive lane, so that it moved from being a single company to becoming a conglomerate and one of best known businesses in Guyana.

From the tender age of eight United Kingdom-based musician Wayne Nunes was being paid for his musical talent as a vocalist and while today he is no longer a singer, music is still his chosen profession.

This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentarians A Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to

Director of the National Aids Programme Secretariat (NAPS) Dr Shanti Singh has described a recent study which found that existing programmes in Guyana for men who have sex with men (MSM) are small scale as not being “entirely true.”

The burning desire to create an avenue for Guyanese women to unite and work together in addressing the many ills that affect them is behind newspaper columnist Stella Ramsaroop’s move

By supporting Raphael Trotman for the Speakership of the National Assembly A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is first out of the blocks in demonstrating that it is prepared to give and yield in the new dispensation in parliament, new Deputy Speaker Deborah Backer has said.

Thirty-five-year-old Trevor Williams describes his involvement in politics “as most natural” since as long as he remembers he has been outspoken and always wanted to be a part of whatever was happening around him.

New Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has said that she has heard enough grumbling about the ‘No child left behind’ policy to persuade her that there should be a countrywide consultation about the policy and whether it should remain in the school system.

Annette Ferguson APNU Providing a voice for the voiceless is the motivation behind Annette Ferguson’s huge step into the world of politics and as a new parliamentarian she hopes that she would be speaking for the many who are unable do so for themselves.

Dr Vindhya Persaud PPP/C Politics is not new to Vindhya Persaud since she grew up in politics, and as a result when she campaigned for the PPP/C in the run-up to the last elections it felt like the natural route for her life to take.

Amid criticism new Minister of Education Priya Manickchand is sticking to her guns in implementing the four-month long pilot project in 36 secondary schools throughout the country to reverse dismal performances in Mathematics and English at CXC.

New Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has said that she has heard enough grumbling about the ‘No child left behind’ policy to persuade her that there should be a countrywide consultation about the policy and whether it should remain in the school system.

Presidential Advisor on Governance Gail Teixeira has described the death of an East Coast Demerara woman following a botched abortion, as unfortunate, pointing out that a lot had been done since the passing of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1995.

Frequent visits to the cinema where he watched his favourite ‘cowboy’ films from the pit with his friends and sometimes his grandparents is what drove Mahadeo Shivraj in the direction of acting.